In Singapore's financial district the Danish firm BIG and the Italian office of Carlo Ratti Associati have together built a mixed-use building 280 meters tall. The vertical elements on the facade are pulled apart like curtains, and the resulting curv
As Bachelard said, the dreams that transport us back to childhood sometimes gravitate around the house in which we felt protected, the ‘topography of our intimate being.’ So it is that the special affection three siblings feel for the home they grew
A home in a garden: Eden contains twenty apartments, with just one per floor. When stacked on top of each other, the apartments are quickly lifted out of reach of a ground-level garden, so the design team examined how to raise this greenery and threa
Conceived as a new educational referent in Singapore, the Learning Hub is a multipurpose building for Nanyang Technological University (NTU), with over 33.000 students. In the digital era, the old model of life-less classrooms off long daylight-less
Based on the geometry of a torus, the gridshell, supported by 14 tree-like columns, stems from an edge-beam that surrounds the whole airport starting at the fifth floor, marking the transition of the cladding, which goes from aluminum panels to glass
With a built area of over 400,000 square meters, the high-density complex Marina One in Singapore – by ingenhoven architects, sustainability experts – officially opened recently. The four towers that comprise it – their heights ranging between 139 an
Apple’s first flagship store in Singapore features two spectacular curved staircases, hand-carved by Italian artisans in Castagna stone. The staircase is assembled from solid stone blocks measuring up to 1.6 x 1.2 x 0.2 meters and up to 1,000 kilogra
On an eight-hectare plot in Southern Ridges, the residential complex rounds off a nine-kilometer green belt filled with parks and recreational facilities. Thirty-one apartment blocks, each six stories high and of the same length, are stacked in a hex
Located within a historic civic district, on the north bank of the Singapore River and close to the Padang, the new Supreme Court takes its cue from the scale and fabric of the neighbouring civic buildings, and literally locks itself into the heart o
Designed for a Japanese collector of modern and Buddhist art, this house was conceived as a contemporary retreat with traditional influences. The house occupies a site rich with historical associations, including a Shinto shrine and man-made caves th
Based on the concept of vertical city, the Scotts Soho Tower includes four types of housing of different scale; between the units there are green, outdoor areas with pools and spa. The 128 housing units in the tower are organized in two groups: above
El pabellón de Singapur se presenta bajo el título ‘Sinfonía urbana’, un tributo a la equilibrada mezcla de culturas existentes en la ciudad-estado asiática. La forma del pabellón evoca el mecanismo de una caja de música, presentándose como una conju
Temasek Polytechnic is a large-scale project that presents itself as a true university city for 13,000 persons among students, teachers, and administrative and maintenance staff in four faculties (Applied Sciences, Business, Design and Technology) an
Far from barking its orders, a robot dog enlisted by Singapore authorities to help curb coronavirus infections in the city-state politely asks joggers and cyclists to stay apart...
From the great greenhouses of the 19th century to the ‘climatops’ proposed by Richard Buckminster Fuller in the mid-20th century, taming nature to reproduce it in artificial environments has been one of the major impulses of modernity. So has it been
Conceived as a project that breaks away from the usual residential typology of vertical apartment towers, The Interlace – designed by Rem Koolhaas’s Office for Metropolitan Architecture and built by its partner Büro Ole Scheeren – was recently named
Con sus más de 150 metros de altura, la Torre Scotts, diseñada por los holandeses UNStudio, será uno de los edificios residenciales más emblemáticos de Singapur. Situada en un enclave privilegiado, al lado del distrito comercial de Orchard y de un pa
Arde enero, y sus fuegos fríos iluminan paisajes neblinosos. En la coyuntura febril que ensambla los dos años, la piel de toro se transforma en una piel de zapa, y el balance acaba por enredarse con el pronóstico: contemplamos las imágenes dispersas
